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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… there was already a long tradition of writing about the topic, from Christian, classical and humanist perspectives, that influenced eighteenth-century attitudes. Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca offered advice about generosity, with all three …
Charity | Empire | Friendship | Gift | Hospitality | Reciprocity | Religion
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Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… were networks which supplied him with a wealth of foreign, local, court and city news. This allowed him to widen his influence in the navy, to make himself respected as a source of news, and to be valued as entertaining company among a …
Diaries | Family | Hospitality | Navy | Patronage
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